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Elevations & Avenues: Matt Petosa captures the beauty of New York's buildings

There's something about the facade of a building. Its little details and colours. The way it changes at different times of the day. How it sits alongside its neighbouring properties. For Matt Petosa, a New York photographer, it's his passion to capture the Big Apple's wonderful architecture, both new and old.

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All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

A graduate of Fine Art from Syracuse University, Matt's goal is to show the beauty, strength and colour of the world, focusing on views of everyday scenes from a trained eye. "My current project, Elevations & Avenues, explores historical architectural urban landscapes with an eye on formal composition and details."

We especially love his images that show the contrasting coloured buildings of a typical Manhattan street. You can see more of his work at mattpetosa.com.

Row of colourful Manhattan tenement buildings with fire escapes, including red, green and cream facades with ground-floor shops and street-level activity
Historic cast-iron New York building with symmetrical rows of windows and ornate green cornice, street level featuring colourful graffiti art and storefronts
Row of red-brick townhouses with autumn foliage and bare tree branches in the foreground on a Manhattan street
Row of multi-storey brick residential buildings with varying facades flanking a bare-branched tree on a New York street
Row of historic brownstone buildings with varied brick facades in shades of red, orange and cream, featuring uniform windows and front stoops along a Manhattan street
Colourful newsstand kiosk with shelves displaying magazines, comics, newspapers and merchandise in an underground transit station
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